Story title: "Why Big Brothers Leave Home" (IV)
Cover Date: March 1937
By: Sheldon Mayer
Hello! Here we go again with this awful strip. Let's just get this over with.
So, Scribbly's having a nice stroll with his girlfriend/special friend, when his little brother (who apparently exists solely to screw his big bro over) decides to thwart his romantic pretensions.
She then walks away in anger, thinking it was Scribbly who hit her. A couple problems with this: first, Scribbly's hands were clearly in his pockets a second ago.
And second, what is this exactly?
I hope it's not a rock because if it is, it looks big enough to cause some serious damage (also, what a way to waste a perfectly round rock, I mean, how rare are those?!), but if it's a snowball (as I'd like to believe) it would've felt pretty differently to a smack in the nape. Anyway, my point is, why the hell was her first instinct to think that her boyfriend/special friend had smacked her absolutely out of nowhere instead of just checking behind her to see who did? It could have been a football (or a baseball, lol) or something like that you know? You don't necessarily have to assume that a baby gremlin did it. Anyway, bitches do be crazy, I guess (I don't actually believe this, just in case).
Oh and then he gets his just desserts. Good! Seeing some justice-handing (or footing?) is really the only thing I enjoy about the little brother character at this point.
Good for you Kenneth! Next time though, think a bit more about your story (or hope that your girlfriend is fine if she actually got that massive boulder thrown at her).
Gee! One whole dollar? That's almost enough to buy one whole piece of gum! (I'm 50% sure I've made this joke already... Eh, whatever.)
That's it for now. You can read this story here.
Let's see the ratings!
Quality/Enjoyment: 1/5
It wasn't until I reread this for the blog that I noticed how little sense the whole thing makes. Anyway, maybe that's not that important. It's a comic strip, it doesn't really have to make sense, just be fun. This, however, is not.
Historical/Cultural/Narrative Significance: 1/5
Alright, we're almost there! Just one more strip to exit this Scribbly gauntlet. I'll see you then but for now, thank you for reading and have a nice rest of your day!
$1 would have been a lot of money in 1937. Comics were only 10 cents.
ReplyDeleteOh yeah, I figured, that was kind of part of the joke. Actually, since I live in Argentina, one one dollar is a lot to me too. Not as much as the price of 10 comic books tho.
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